Some Distinguished Victims of the ScaffoldBleackley, Horace
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Some Distinguished Victims of the Scaffold
Bleackley, Horace
Criminals -- Great Britain; Executions and executioners; Trials -- Great Britain
II. CONTEMPORARY NEWSPAPERS AND MAGAZINES
1. _The Gentleman’s Magazine_ (1771), p. 572; (1778), p. 594; (1783),
part i. pp. 359, 443; part ii. pp. 626, 710, 714; (1808), part i. p. 87.
2. _The European Magazine_ (1783), part ii. pp. 158, 172-173.
3. _The Morning Post_, April-August 1783.
4. _The Morning Chronicle_, do.
5. _The Morning Herald_, do.
6. _The London Chronicle_, do.
7. _The Public Advertiser_, do.
8. _The Daily Advertiser_, do.
9. _The General Advertiser_, do.
10. _The Whitehall Evening Post_, do.
11. _The London Recorder_, do.
12. _Ayre’s Sunday London Gazette_, do.
13. _The Gazetteer and New Daily Advertiser_, do.
14. _Lloyds Evening Post_, do.
The most complete account of the trial will be found in the
_Morning Post_, Monday, July 28, 1783. Those who are interested
in the much-debated question whether the site of the ‘Tyburn
Tree’ was in Connaught Square, Bryanston Street, or Upper
Seymour Street, would do well to remember that on August 29,
1783 (so the papers tell us), the gallows were placed fifty
yards nearer the park wall than usual. Naturally, its position
was changed from time to time.
NOTES
NOTE I.--_Dic. Nat. Biog._ The date of Ryland’s birth is given as July
1732! Nor was he the eldest, but the _third_ son of his father.
NOTE II.--_Eighteenth Century Colour Prints._ Mrs Julia Frankau.
Macmillan (1900).
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